History NightmareFuel / NomadOfNowhere

* Don Paragon's megalomania and sociopathy is on full display, as evidenced during his monologue to the Nomad. He cheerfully reveals that Skout is in the dungeons, but not to be handed over to El Rey. Instead, once El Rey gives him magic, [[BalefulPolymorph Don will try turning her]] ''[[BodyHorror into a pinata]]''.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't get upset... but I am. ''Quite. Hungry.''"'']]

* This episode introduces us to El Rey, who appears to a beaten Don Paragon as a flock of talking ravens. After Don explains what's happened, El Rey blots out the area around the aspirant Governor, the eyes of the ravens [[RedEyesTakeWarning all turn red]], and the King lets loose in a ''grisly'' (and mercifully offscreen) attack ... which results in Don Paragon being ''eaten alive'', [[NeverFoundTheBody without a single body part spared or a drop of blood remaining]]. Toth, who bears witness to this, is ''visibly'' haunted by what she's seen.

* While the Nomad is a NiceGuy, there's a reason why people are scared shitless of him. [[spoiler:After the Undertaker pushes him too far, the Nomad brings ''everything'' in the room alive and threatens to kill him. Luckily, the Nomad's kindness breaks through and he stops before things go too far. However, this leads to ParanoiaFuel as the Undertaker is terrified that the objects the Nomad brought to life, and returned to inanimate form at the moment, could come back any second to continue their work.]]

* This episode contains [[spoiler:flashbacks experienced by the Nomad when he rests within an abandoned castle. A benevolent and elderly king gets possessed by a demonic crown (which ''eats'' the wizard trying to empower it first), and he turns the verdant land he governed into the wasteland it is today. Furthermore, he turns a guard into a minotaur and sets him loose on his people when the subjects rebel]]. And the kicker? [[spoiler:That king is ''El Rey''. To add fuel to the fire, that minotaur he created became one of his four governors that each hold dominion over the four corners of Nowhere, doing whatever they want provided they answer to El Rey]]. There's no dialogue throughout this scene, and it's positively ''haunting''.
** [[spoiler:In the B-plot, a monster severely injures Skout, and Toth abandons the search to bring her back for treatment. And during the resulting conversation with Don Paragon, he ''stabs one of his men in the stomach for critiquing his plan'' to become a governor]].
** Given that [[spoiler: El Rey transformed his right-hand man into a minotaur, it kind of makes one wonder if he will grant Don Paragon's wish [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor in the]] [[BodyHorror worst way]].]]

* The episode starts with [[spoiler: [[ImplacableMan the Nomad and Skout being pursued by Toro's champion. No matter what they do, they can't lose him - due to a compass that the Champion uses to track magical beings.]]]]
* [[spoiler: [[KnightOfCerebus Everything about Toro's champion]]]]. [[spoiler: While the show has gotten dark in the past, even characters like the Ranchhand and the Undertaker had their funny moments. But there is ''nothing'' funny about Toro's champion. He’s not AffablyEvil, he’s not an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, nor does he make use of any puns.]]
* [[spoiler:The Champion killing the Nomad's rope, which ties into his mentioned that he's killed before and his desire to fight the Nomad]].
* [[spoiler:Without Skout to rein her in, Toth's drive to capture the Nomad has descended into fullblown obsession and SanitySlippage. She is shown effectively holding innocent civilians hostage and threatening to torture them if they don't tell her what she wants to hear. Even the Dandy Lions are becoming disturbed by how unhinged Toth has become in her mission.]]
* [[spoiler: Right after defeating Toro's champion, Red Manuel shows up and at first it seems like a case of HistoryRepeats, with the Nomad getting away and Red Manuel being comically injured in some way. Then Red has his NotSoHarmlessVillain moment and tries to kill Skout - which results in Nomad pushing her out of the way and TakingTheBullet, collapsing to the ground as the screen blacks out. Tellingly, there's only silence over the credits.]]
** [[spoiler: Even after TakingTheBullet, the Nomad and Skout are still pretty much screwed. [[AloneWithThePsycho No one else knows where they are]], Skout is pretty much unarmed, and Red has every intention of killing her.]]

* The giant spider that nearly eats the Nomad and [[spoiler: Melinda]].
* The last shot reveals what happened after the end of "Compass"; [[spoiler:Nomad has been caged and dragged to the Oasis, with Don Paragon's evil grin the first thing he sees]].

* Don Paragon's megalomania and sociopathy is on full display, as evidenced during his monologue to [[spoiler:the Nomad]]. He cheerfully reveals that [[spoiler:Skout]] is in the dungeons, but not to be handed over to El Rey. Instead, [[spoiler:once El Rey gives him magic, [[BalefulPolymorph Don will try turning her]] ''[[BodyHorror into a pinata]]'']].

* This episode introduces us to [[spoiler:El Rey]], who appears to a beaten Don Paragon [[spoiler:as a flock of talking ravens]]. After Don explains what's happened, [[spoiler:El Rey blots out the area around the aspirant Governor, the eyes of the ravens [[RedEyesTakeWarning all turn red]], and the King lets loose in a ''grisly'' (and mercifully offscreen) attack]] ... which results in [[spoiler:Don Paragon being ''eaten whole'', [[NeverFoundTheBody without a single body part spared or a drop of blood remaining]]]]. Toth, who bears witness to this, is ''visibly'' haunted by what she's seen.
** Just the way [[spoiler:El Rey speaks through the ravens]] is unsettling. [[YouHaveFailedMe It all accumulates into one sentence]].
-->[[spoiler:'''El Rey''']]: I don’t get upset, but I am. ''[[PunctuatedforEmphasis Quite. Hungry]]''.

* Toro's Champion ''tearing up a train track with his bare hands''! Not to mention his willingness to cause potential civilian casualties.

* The episode starts with [[spoiler:ImplacableMan the Nomad and Skout being pursued by Toro's champion. No matter what they do, they can't lose him - due to a compass that the Champion uses to track magical beings.]]

* [[spoiler: [[KnightOfCerebusEverything about Toro's champion]]]]. [[spoiler: While the show has gotten dark in the past, even characters like the Ranchhand and the Undertaker had their funny moments. But there is ''nothing'' funny about Toro's champion. He’s not AffablyEvil, he’s not an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, nor does he make use of any puns.]]